Artists / Baxter Roy Long
Baxter Roy Long
Flower Essence Questionnaire
Catalog Numbers: FH-046 / FH:VI-020
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Genre: Free Folk / New Weird America
Type: Album
Purchase: Bandcamp
Links: Discogs Info
pressing information
Digital: Worldwide
Cassette Tape: Furhoof: Sixth Man
1st Press (2017): 100
”Bluebrick” solid azure blue shell with white imprint A-side, full-color 4-Panel J-Card (two-sided) with artwork & photography by Baxter Roy Long, in a clear plastic Norelco case. Hand-numbered.
Tracklisting
1. Paribanou – 03:56
2. Alone in Your Fantasy – 03:03
3. Three Years Later a Ditty for Dari – 03:30
4. Florentine Diamond – 03:45
5. Pin to Pin – 03:47
6. Putting in Your Oar – 02:11
7. Halib Makkah – 03:19
8. Born in September – 03:36
9. Bonzo! – 03:50
10. It Closes How It Opens – 05:48
11. Baby Blue – 03:42
Total Run Time: 40:27
Side Split: A 1-6, B 7-11
Credits
Written, recorded, and produced by Baxter Roy Long.
All songs recorded Winter 2015 - Spring 2016 in Lewiston, Maine; Elizabeth, Colorado; and Buffalo, New York.
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering in Montreal, Canada.
Art by Baxter Roy Long.
Layout by Ryan McCardle.
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"I circumvented oblivion tailored to a moment under a shadowed elixir, I daydreamed slowly and dilly dallied carelessly. Taking time forever to record songs for nothing."
–Baxter Roy Long
Release Biography
Baxter Roy Long grew up in Eastern Colorado and began experimenting with sound in a tack room stall circa 2004. Though their days on the plains are in their rear-view mirror you can still feel, touch and merely smell the dry alfalfa hay bales, horse hair, and saddle soap in their sonic contributions. They record, produce and solely play (unless noted otherwise) all their records. Long’s music is playful, full of movement and always in a shifting formation of curious wonder. Perhaps Long arrived on this chaotic plane with the sole purpose of carrying a desert flower through the chasm to place it gently against your ear for the sake of a delicate embrace.
Long tends to constantly be on the move and they discussed such things in a candid interview with GoldFlakePaint entitled “Roots vs. Wings: How Baxter Roy Long Stays Planted in the Shifting Sands of Time.” Furious Hooves was proud to release two albums simultaneously for Baxter Roy Long on February 10th 2017 digitally, as well as on limited edition cassette tape. ‘Flower Essence Questionnaire’ was recorded in the Winter of 2015 - Spring 2016 across Lewiston, Maine; Elizabeth, Colorado; and Buffalo, New York. ‘Palms on the Setting Stone’ was recorded in 2014 across Sequim & Seattle, Washington; and Buffalo, New York.
Press & Accolades
“If ‘Flower Essence Questionnaire’ tells you anything about [Loretta’s] music, it’s that it cannot be summarised by any neat genre tag. From the dusty warmth of “Paribanou” and almost dream-pop vibes of “Alone in Your Fantasy,” to the wistful beauty of “Pin to Pin” and sultry danger of “Halib Makkah,” the album is consistent only in its ability to surprise the listener, twisting and turning like an undulating snake.
– Various Small Flames, review of ‘Flower Essence Questionnaire’ from “The Weird World of Baxter Roy Long.” (6/2017)
